Rohini Lakshané

@rohini
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Interdisciplinary research, tech policy, gender, access to knowledge, writing, and teaching. Engineer, Wikimedian, polyglot. Gaia is god.

Personal views. "The personal is political."

📍 India

IPA transcription of my name: roːɦiɳiː ləkʂəɳeː

My name in the Devanagari script: रोहिणी लक्षणे

Pronouns: she/ her

Display picture: Illustration created by Upasana Agarwal for the book 31 Fantastic Adventures in Science.

#NoBridge

About Mehttps://about.me/rohini
Personal bloghttps://aarohini.medium.com
Zenodohttps://zenodo.org/search?q=metadata.creators.person_or_org.name%3A%22Lakshan%C3%A9%2C%20Rohini%22&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0205-0696
Someone also has a Bangalore edition on LinkedIn.
Useful advice on my bag of tortilla chips. Applies to everything from labour exploitation to sh*tty relationships.
As seen on BlueSky. Too good to not share.
Are we surprised then that people turn to LLMs for emotional support? (They shouldn't, but here we are.)
I asked some folks I know whether WW III has broken out and got this as the response: https://gemini.google.com/share/74ec4b404531
Dopamine.

I picked up this copy of a Tintin comic in a waiting room. My first time reading Tintin as an adult. These comics are racist as f**k. The coloniser gaze is everywhere. As a child, I felt it but could never articulate it.

Edit: I found this Wikipedia page about it. This is indeed one of the most racist of the Tintin comic albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo

I guess Delhi's air quality warrants this.

Funny incident that happened at Sunder Nursery when I was walking around this mausoleum there.

There are swings suspended from the branches of some of the trees. One young couple arrived. The woman sat in the lap of the man and they started swinging. A woman guard ran towards them, blowing a whistle. I was expecting her to do morality policing and preach not doing PDA. Instead, she yelled, "The swing can't take that much weight. It will collapse and you'll get injured." +

#Delhi #travel

I wonder what it's like to have a dentist who likes making puns.

#Delhi #travel